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🦁🐆 It’s lion versus leopard this #MosaicMonday! This stunning scene comes from the Casa delle Colombe a mosaico at Pompeii. It seems the lion truly has the upper hand, standing over the prone leopard. The power of the lion’s claws are matched by its direct stare at the viewer. #AncientBluesky🏺

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Although I was very fond of the peaceful tranquil atmosphere inside, I wish the beautiful Palazzo Altemps had more visitors🏺

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A 2,000 year old ‘face-off’ between a mean-eyed mongoose and a rearing cobra! My money’s on the mongoose! Detail from a Roman mosaic from the House of the Faun in Pompeii. Now on display at the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

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Understood- Rome is well organized not to show me a single Caravaggio

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One doesn't travel just to entertain themselves. With respect and grief. After 425 years.❤️🙏

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#MosaicMonday🏺

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And while I was here in Roma another well known, respected journalist was arrested in Turkey for reminding the MaStEr oF tHe UniVeRsE that death is real (Forgetting Turkish politics for 2 days felt good- wish I could keep it longer😢)

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THE BELL JAR HARD ❌ It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York EASY ✅ That summer was sizzling, and so were the Rosenbergs

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One has to see with their own eyes to understand fully how crazy the color grades in Roman mosaics' tesserae are🏺

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Today's the 175th birthday of Fanny Angelina Hesse. Never heard of her? Can't blame you, she's one of those almost forgotten #pioneers. - But modern science, and you, really owe her. That's why we want to tell her story in an upcoming #GraphicNovel. Happy birthday, Fanny! 🧪 youtu.be/YNAXtYq3I3A

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The bad news of the day: Marcus Aurelius column is being restored.😕

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Who loves spolia? I mean, who doesn't.😍 📌Basilica di Santa Maria di Trastevere

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I almost skipped seeing this extraordinary mosaic in Capitoline today (I noticed it after having read the label, gladly). Its tesserae are so fine that they look like sand grains.🏺

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Everyone else: The dome of Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola is fantastic Me: These marble slabs inside are fantastic

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Wandering on the streets of Rome we came across the house where Escher lived.😃🦎🐝🕊️🐟

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Husband says regarding his nose Emperor Constantine must have been my great grandfather (And yes Rome is a bit 🔥 warm🔥 today).

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Finalmente... Taking off from the last capital of Roman empire to the first one.🇹🇷🇮🇹😁

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Nero being crowned by his mother Agrippina at the Sebasteion, Aphrodisias, at the time of discovery in 1979

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It's always a bit of a thrill to see this drachm coin minted in Knossos, Crete, which depicts the goddess Hera on the obverse. Because on the reverse, below, is depicted an iconic image from the myth of the Minotaur - the labyrinth. 🏺 #ancientbluesky #ARTIC Struck 350-220 BCE. 📸 me

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Anniversary, kind of. What a time it was.

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Two burnt Bronze Age textile fragments have been unearthed at Beycesultan in western Türkiye. One fragment was made from hemp using the nålbinding, or single-needle knitting, technique and was dyed with the woad or indigo plant, while the other was a natural tabby weave.

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These should be picked, as we're leaving home soon😏

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Nineteen surviving reliefs from the portico of the Hadrianeum - the Temple of Divine Hadrian - in Rome are scattered between three museums: the Musei Capitolini, the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme (both in Rome), and the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli.🏺 1/ #ancientbluesky 📸 me

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"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

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Current mood: I am sick of Italy, I am sick of myself, I printed endless pages of e-tickets and vouchers, I watched hours of videos of Rome, now I don't feel anything similar to joy or excitement, I just want to let it go.😵‍💫😩

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#Woodensday with the surviving Viking ships housed at the Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde 🇩🇰 Including some of the modern recreations moored in the harbour the 5 ships survived on the sea floor of the fjord thanks to being scuttled, likely to try & block an attack on the harbour

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Yeah, Kurdish "hot barman" who would break his sister's nose in his hometown in Muş for she talked to a man on the street🤮

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The longest lived animal is not a whale, not a shark nor a tortoise but a clam (507 years old).

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Yesterday I was going to make a joke about the USA reminding Turkey every other day and I was about to say "Careful. Maybe they'll detain the mayor of New York" but I thought that'd sound too stupid.😖😖😖

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Oh, this is a good one! 👌 Sometimes such a hole really tells a whole story ...

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"No man ever digs the same hole twice." -(not)Herakleitos (😜)

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All of a sudden I noticed that I'll never eat grandma's "gözleme" (or anything she cooked) again.😢 (No condolences, please. She's still alive)

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Scrolling down on Bluesky, reading Europeans complaining posts about border controls "coming back" feels strange if the citizens of your country cannot even make an appointment for a Schengen visa (yes I am going to Italy, I have a "special passport"- I served the State 22 years for that🫣).

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